We are pleased to announce
Gavin Creel as "Steven
Kodaly",
Tony Award® winner
Jane Krakowski as "
Ilona Ritter", three-time
Tony nominee
Kelli O'Hara as "
Amalia Balas",
Josh Radnor as "
Georg",
Peter Bartlett as "Headwaiter", Tony nominee
Michael McGrath as "Ladislav Sipos", Tony nominee
Rory O'Malley as "
Arpad Laszlo" and four-time Tony nominee
Victor Garber as "Mr. Maraczek" leading an all-star cast in a one-night only performance of
She Loves Me. The romantic musical comedy features a book by
Joe Masteroff (
Cabaret), music by
Jerry Bock and lyrics by
Sheldon Harnick (
Fiddler on the Roof).
She Loves Me will also feature
Jane Brockman,
Rachel de Benedet,
Rebecca Eichenberger,
Gina Ferrall, Rob
Lorey,
Jeffrey Schecter,
Jessica Vosk,
Jim Walton.
The benefit concert reading will take place on Monday,
December 5th,
2011 at 7:30PM at the
Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124
West 43rd Street).
Director Scott Ellis (She Loves Me,
1776,
Curtains) will direct the evening as a celebration of
Roundabout's
20th anniversary of producing on
Broadway which began in
1991 at the
Criterion Center in
Times Square. Roundabout's
1993 Broadway revival of She Loves Me, also directed by
Ellis, began life at the Criterion Center and launched Roundabout's
Musical Theatre program. It was nominated for nine
Tony Awards including
Best Revival of a
Musical,
Best Director and
Best Choreography (
Rob Marshall) and the four major acting awards. It also won the
1994 Drama Desk award for
Outstanding Musical Revival. With She Loves Me, Roundabout began the process of becoming one of the largest and most celebrated producers of musicals on Broadway with highlights including Cabaret, 1776, Nine,
Assassins,
The Pajama Game, Sunday in the
Park with
George and the current 2011 Tony Award winning production of
Anything Goes.
She Loves Me will feature musical staging by JoAnn M.
Hunter and musical director
Paul Gemignani will lead a 15-member orchestra with orchestrations by
Don Walker.
This classic musical follows Amalia (
O'Hara) and Georg (
Radnor), two feuding clerks in a
European parfumerie during the
1930's who secretly find solace in their anonymous romantic pen pals, little knowing their respective correspondents are actually each other.
Bock & Harnick's gorgeous score includes "
Tonight at Eight", "Will He
Like Me?", "
Vanilla Ice Cream" and "She Loves Me".
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